Tom Cruise believes in aliens

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Apr 6, 2013 at 12:01 AMApr 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM

In Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars as a drone repairman assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources after an alien invasion 60 years earlier - a scenario that the star considers entirely possible. During a panel discussion at the film's Moscow premiere, Cruise told reporters he thinks humans aren't the only intelligent life-forms in the galaxy.

In Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars as a drone repairman assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources after an alien invasion 60 years earlier — a scenario that the star considers entirely possible.

During a panel discussion at the film’s Moscow premiere, Cruise told reporters he thinks humans aren’t the only intelligent life-forms in the galaxy.

“I don’t think you can actually count it out,” he said of the question of whether life on other planets exists. “It might be a little arrogant to think we were the only ones in all the galaxies throughout the universe — but I’ve never met one.”

The 50-year-old actor also made other admissions during the discussion, the British tabloid The Sun reported.

In addition to claiming that his film Minority Report (2002) gave Apple the idea for the iPad, he said he would love to visit space.

“Who wouldn’t want to do something like that? I’m going to let a couple of other people test it out first, but it would be great,” he said. “I was always hoping when I was a kid that we would be traveling to different planets by now.”

— Compiled by Julia Brinksneader

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